21 > 25.10.24
CN D Pantin
Born in Madrid, La Ribot lives in Geneva and works internationally. « La Ribot is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. Her art emerged at the end of Spain’s democratic transition in the 1980s and has gone on to profoundly change the field of contemporary dance. She defies the frameworks and formats of the stage and the museum, borrowing freely from the vocabularies of theater, visual art, performance art, film, and video to achieve a conceptual shift in choreography. Her solos, collective explorations, experiments with amateurs, installations, and moving images are the many facets of a protean practice that constantly focus on the rights of the body.» Marcella Lista, writer and New Media curator – Centre Pompidou, Paris 2020.
La Ribot proposes a workshop to explore the parameters of her piece LaBOLA (2022), the core of her latest choreographies (DIEstinguished, 2022, LIVEstinguished, 2024). LaBOLA celebrates dance as a transformative principle and as a relationship with otherness. This human sphere is formed by three performers, always in contact with each other, exchanging objects and costumes, composing with the present moment and its accidents. Fleeting images emerge from their movement, opening the field to the imagination, in a constantly changing play of colors and registers. This workshop provides an insight into the fundamental elements of La Ribot’s work. It places bodies in dialogue with objects, clothing and text, and calls upon notions of scale, passage and duration.